Re: MAUSICA WEEKLY EMAILS 2019-JAN-04

2019-JAN-04-0537Hrs

On Evelyn Hordatt's century, I offer this remembrance, which I should say I had the opportunity to recall in her presence at a gathering we had about six years ago at a hotel somewhere in Maraval/Cascade. She remembered in delight, and called on me to repeat before all the Mausicans gathered. The setting was demonstration teaching in the auditorium at the college. And of course a class of children from D'Abadie were there, and she, the greatest Early Childhood Educator ever, was the Teacher of record.

The lesson was how do people call fowls.

Now for those Mausicans who did not grow up with fowls in the yard (people like Rodney Foster), this might need some interpretation. Otherwise it could be mis-interpreted as some fowl-naming ceremony. What Miss Hordatt was after here was for the children to express the various ways in which they heard people call their fowls at feeding time. Now in Marabella where I grew up I had yard fowls, and one way in which I called  them when I had corn for them was to say out loud Tee, Tee, Tee, Tee! And that brought them in. I had other sounds I could make, one sort of like a black bird chirp.

One child in the class said that the way her/his mother called fowls was to shout out "All you eh want?". And that brought them in. Remember that for demonstration lessons,we students were upstairs on the  the library balcony looking on at this below. Miss Hordatt lost it with this rather original call, and laughed uncontrollably.

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While on this question of Demonstration Teaching let me add a remembrance here of Lance Lougheide as Teacher of record. And Mr. Lougheide's lesson for these children of D' Abadie was on why a torch was the roadside traffic signal used to indicate to drivers that they were in the vicinity of a school, and should slow down.And in the course of this lesson he explained to these children that the origin of the flame was Greek mythology, and that Prometheus was the Greek god of fire, and that the flame was associated with knowledge and learning, hence the roadside torch near to schools.

These Mausica lecturers were not ordinary.

Theodore Lewis (67-69)

Scratchy.

Theodore Lewis 69